# Somerset Maugham Award

Il Somerset Maugham Award è un premio letterario britannico assegnato annualmente dal sindacato di scrittori denominato Society of Authors.
Istituito nel 1947 dallo scrittore William Somerset Maugham per incoraggiare i giovani autori ad arricchire il proprio bagaglio di esperienza nei paesi esteri, è rivolto a scrittori sotto i 35 anni e premia opere edite di narrativa, saggi e poesie.
Per l'edizione del 2019 il montepremi è stato di 16000 sterline ripartite in maniera equa tra i 4 vincitori.

## Albo d'oro

| Anno | Scrittore | Opera |
| 1947 | A. L. Barker | Innocents |
| 1948 | Percy Howard Newby | Journey to the Interior |
| 1949 | Hamish Henderson | Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica |
| 1950 | Nigel Kneale | Tomato Cain & Other Stories |
| 1951 | Roland Camberton | Scamp |
| 1952 | Francis King | The Dividing Stream |
| 1953 | Emyr Humphreys | Hear and Forgive |
| 1954 | Doris Lessing | Five Short Novels |
| 1955 | Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim |
| 1956 | Elizabeth Jennings | A Way of Looking |
| 1957 | George Lamming | In the Castle of My Skin |
| 1958 | John Wain | Preliminary Essays |
| 1959 | Thom Gunn | A Sense Of Movement |
| 1960 | Ted Hughes | The Hawk in the Rain |
| 1961 | V. S. Naipaul | Miguel Street |
| 1962 | Hugh Thomas | The Spanish Civil War |
| 1963 | David Storey | Flight Into Camden |
| 1964 | Dan Jacobson | Time of Arrival |
| 1964 | John le Carré | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| 1965 | Peter Everett | Negatives |
| 1966 | Michael Frayn | The Tin Men |
| 1966 | Julian Mitchell | The White Father |
| 1967 | B.S. Johnson | Trawl |
| 1967 | Andrew Sinclair | The Better Half |
| 1968 | Paul Bailey | At The Jerusalem |
| 1968 | Seamus Heaney | Death of a Naturalist |
| 1969 | Angela Carter | Several Perceptions |
| 1970 | Jane Gaskell | A Sweet Sweet Summer |
| 1970 | Piers Paul Read | Monk Dawson |
| 1971 | Susan Hill | I'm the King of the Castle |
| 1971 | Richard Barber | The Knight and Chivalry |
| 1971 | Michael Hastings | Tussy Is Me |
| 1972 | Douglas Dunn | Terry Street |
| 1972 | Gillian Tindall | Fly Away Home |
| 1973 | Peter Prince | Play Things |
| 1973 | Paul Strathern | A Season in Abyssinia |
| 1973 | Jonathan Street | Prudence Dictates |
| 1974 | Martin Amis | The Rachel Papers |
| 1975 | Premio non assegnato | Premio non assegnato |
| 1976 | Dominic Cooper | The Dead of Winter |
| 1976 | Ian McEwan | First Love, Last Rites |
| 1977 | Richard Holmes | Shelley: The Pursuit |
| 1978 | Tom Paulin | A State of Justice |
| 1978 | Nigel Williams | My Life Closed Twice |
| 1979 | Helen Hodgman | Jack & Jill |
| 1979 | Sara Maitland | Daughter of Jerusalem |
| 1980 | Max Hastings | Bomber Command |
| 1980 | Christopher Reid | Arcadia |
| 1980 | Humphrey Carpenter | The Inklings |
| 1981 | Julian Barnes | Metroland |
| 1981 | Clive Sinclair | Hearts of Gold |
| 1981 | A. N. Wilson | The Healing Art |
| 1982 | William Boyd | A Good Man in Africa |
| 1982 | Adam Mars-Jones | Lantern Lecture |
| 1983 | Lisa St Aubin de Teran | Keepers of the House |
| 1984 | Peter Ackroyd | The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde |
| 1984 | Timothy Garton Ash | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity |
| 1984 | Sean O'Brien | The Indoor Park |
| 1985 | Blake Morrison | Dark Glasses |
| 1985 | Jeremy Reed | By the Fisheries |
| 1985 | Jane Rogers | Her Living Image |
| 1986 | Patricia Ferguson | Family Myths and Legends |
| 1986 | Adam Nicolson | Frontiers |
| 1986 | Tim Parks | Tongues of Flame |
| 1987 | Stephen Gregory | The Cormorant |
| 1987 | Janni Howker | Isaac Campion |
| 1987 | Andrew Motion | The Lamberts |
| 1988 | Jimmy Burns | The Land That Lost Its Heroes |
| 1988 | Carol Ann Duffy | Selling Manhattan |
| 1988 | Matthew Kneale | Whore Banquets |
| 1989 | Rupert Christiansen | Romantic Affinities |
| 1989 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming Pool Library |
| 1989 | Deirdre Madden | The Birds of the Innocent Wood |
| 1990 | Mark Hudson | Our Grandmothers' Drums |
| 1990 | Sam North | The Automatic Man |
| 1990 | Nicholas Shakespeare | The Vision of Elena Silves |
| 1991 | Peter Benson | The Other Occupant |
| 1991 | Lesley Glaister | Honour Thy Father |
| 1991 | Helen Simpson | Four Bare Legs in a Bed |
| 1992 | Geoff Dyer | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz |
| 1992 | Lawrence Norfolk | Lemprière's Dictionary |
| 1992 | Gerard Woodward | Householder |
| 1993 | Dea Birkett | Jella |
| 1993 | Duncan McLean | Bucket of Tongues |
| 1993 | Glyn Maxwell | Out of the Rain |
| 1994 | Jackie Kay | Other Lovers |
| 1994 | A. L. Kennedy | Looking For the Possible Dance |
| 1994 | Philip Marsden | Crossing Place |
| 1995 | Patrick French | Younghusband |
| 1995 | Simon Garfield | The End of Innocence |
| 1995 | Kathleen Jamie | The Queen of Sheba |
| 1995 | Laura Thompson | The Dogs |
| 1996 | Katherine Pierpoint | Truffle Beds |
| 1996 | Alan Warner | Morvern Callar |
| 1997 | Rhidian Brook | The Testimony of Taliesin Jones |
| 1997 | Kate Clanchy | Slattern |
| 1997 | Philip Hensher | Kitchen Venom |
| 1997 | Francis Spufford | I May Be Some Time |
| 1998 | Rachel Cusk | The Country Life |
| 1998 | Jonathan Rendall | This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own |
| 1998 | Kate Summerscale | The Queen of Whale Cay |
| 1998 | Robert Twigger | Angry White Pyjamas |
| 1999 | Andrea Ashworth | Once in a House on Fire |
| 1999 | Paul Farley | The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You |
| 1999 | Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland |
| 1999 | Jonathan Freedland | Bring Home the Revolution |
| 2000 | Bella Bathurst | The Lighthouse Stevensons |
| 2000 | Sarah Waters | Affinity |
| 2001 | Edward Platt | Leadville—A Biography of the A40 |
| 2001 | Ben Rice | Pobby And Dingan |
| 2002 | Charlotte Hobson | Black Earth City |
| 2002 | Marcel Theroux | The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase |
| 2003 | William Fiennes | The Snow Geese |
| 2003 | Hari Kunzru | The Impressionist |
| 2003 | Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things |
| 2004 | Charlotte Mendelson | Daughters of Jerusalem |
| 2004 | Mark Blayney | Two Kinds of Silence |
| 2004 | Robert Macfarlane | Mountains of the Mind |
| 2005 | Justin Hill | Passing Under Heaven |
| 2005 | Maggie O'Farrell | The Distance Between Us |
| 2006 | Chris Cleave | Incendiary |
| 2006 | Zadie Smith | On Beauty |
| 2006 | Owen Sheers | Skirrid Hill |
| 2007 | Horatio Clare | Running For The Hills |
| 2007 | James Scudamore | The Amnesia Clinic |
| 2008 | Gwendoline Riley | Joshua Spassky |
| 2008 | Steven Hall | The Raw Shark Texts |
| 2008 | Nick Laird | On purpose |
| 2008 | Adam Thirwell | Miss Herbert |
| 2009 | Adam Foulds | The Broken Word |
| 2009 | Alice Albinia | Empires of the Indus |
| 2009 | Rodge Glass | Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography |
| 2009 | Henry Hitchings | The Secret Life of Words |
| 2009 | Thomas Leveritt | The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money |
| 2009 | Helen Walsh | Once Upon a Time in England |
| 2010 | Jacob Polley | Talk of the Town |
| 2010 | Helen Oyeyemi | White is for Witching |
| 2010 | Ben Wilson | What Price Liberty? |
| 2011 | Mirian Gamble | The Squirrels Are Dead |
| 2011 | Alexandra Harris | Romantic Moderns |
| 2011 | Adam O’Riordan | In the Flesh |
| 2012 | Premio non assegnato | Premio non assegnato |
| 2013 | Ned Beauman | The Teleportation Accident |
| 2013 | Abi Curtis | The Glass Delusion |
| 2013 | Joe Stretch | The Adult |
| 2013 | Lucy Wood | Diving Belles |
| 2014 | Nadifa Mohamed | The Orchard of Lost Souls |
| 2014 | Daisy Hildyard | Hunters in the Snow Grass |
| 2014 | Amy Sackville | Orkney |
| 2015 | Jonathan Beckman | How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne |
| 2015 | Liz Berry | Black Country |
| 2015 | Ben Brooks | Lolito |
| 2015 | Zoe Pilger | Eat My Heart Out |
| 2016 | Jessie Greengrass | An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It |
| 2016 | Daisy Hay | Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance |
| 2016 | Andrew McMillan | Physical |
| 2016 | Thomas Morris | We Don't Know What We're Doing |
| 2016 | Jack Underwood | Happiness |
| 2017 | Edmund Gordon | The Invention of Angela Carter |
| 2017 | Melissa Lee-Houghton | Sunshine |
| 2017 | Martin MacInnes | Infinite Ground |
| 2018 | Kayo Chingonyi | Kumukanda |
| 2018 | Fiona Mozley | Elmet |
| 2018 | Miriam Nash | All the Prayers in the House |
| 2019 | Raymond Antrobus | The Perseverance |
| 2019 | Damian Le Bas | The Stopping Places |
| 2019 | Phoebe Power | Shrines of Upper Austria |
| 2019 | Nell Stevens | Mrs Gaskell and Me |
| 2020 | Amrou Al-Kadhi | Unicorn |
| 2020 | Roseann Watt | Moder Dy |
| 2020 | Oliver Soden | Michael Tippett: The Biography |
| 2020 | Alex Allison | The Art of the Body |
| 2021 | Akeem Balogun | The Storm |
| 2021 | Graeme Armstrong | The Young Team |
| 2021 | Isabelle Baafi | Ripe |
| 2021 | Lamorna Ash | Dark, Salt, Clear |
| 2022 | Stephanie Sy-Quia | Amnion |
| 2022 | Tice Cin | Keeping the House |
| 2022 | Lucia Osborne-Crowley | My Body Keeps Your Secrets |
| 2022 | Caleb Azumah Nelson | Mare aperto (Open Water) |
| 2022 | Maia Elsner | Overrun by Wild Boars |
| 2023 | Travis Alabanza | None of the Above |
| 2023 | Sussie Anie | To Fill a Yellow House |
| 2023 | Mya-Rose Craig | La mia famiglia e altri volatili (Birdgirl) |
| 2023 | Jay Gao | Imperium |
| 2023 | Gurnaik Johal | We move |
| 2023 | Moses McKenzie | An Olive Grove in Ends |